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G. P. TALLMAN'.

FEATHER RENOVATOR,

Patented Peb.2i0,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE F. TALLMAN, OF DEPOSIT, NEWv YORK.

FEATHER-RENOVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,795, dated February 20, 1883.

Application filed'Octobcr 7, 1882. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE FERNANDO TALLMAN, of Deposit, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Feather-Renovator, of which the follewingis a full,clear, and exact description.

My invention consistsof improvements in the construction of feather-renovators, desi ned tofacilitate the escape of the steam, water, and foul odors from the feathers, increase the drying-surface, and facilitate the escape of the dirt from a machine consisting of a jacketed cylindrical case in which steam-heated arms are made to revolve for stirring up and washing or cleaning the feathers therein by steam discharged in the cylinder along with the feathers, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to. be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the cylinder of a feather-renovator constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of Fig.1 on lineman. Fig. 3 is a top view, in perspective, showing the wire mesh inside face of the dirt-box.

Instead of making the case a cylindrical in the upper part, as in the rest,I propose -to apply an oval extension, b, above the circle of the cylinder at the top to provide space 0 above the sweep of the heating and stirring fingers 0, into which the feathers may be thrust by the fingers and more widely spread about to facilitate the escape of moisture from them, and afiord more room for the steam and vapors to collect and escape to the passages through which they are to be drawn off to the chimney 40 f, or otherwise.

agaimbesides saving the damage to the feathers by the return of foul matters once separated from them.

To lessen the quantity of the drip thus tendiug to return I construct the branches 9 with a slight fall toward the junction with the main pipe, where the water may be trapped at t, and drawnofffrom time totime through any suitable discharge-cock or other device. I now pro pose tolocate the dirt-box in the door, the door being in the same position as before, a little up the side of the cylinder. The advantages are, that the dirt will be discharged into the box through the wire-netting m to better ad: vantage,in consequence of being a little above the bottom and on that side up which the fingers e ascend. It is more easy of access for taking off for removal of the dirt, because it can be reached better by the attendant, and the steam-jacket a may be extended over the space heretofore occupied by the box, so as to provide more heating-surface, and thereby enable the machine tobe more effective and eco nomical.

When the dirt-box is located directly under the center of the cylinder, the dirt is liable to be brushed across the wire-nettingm, through which it is to escape into the box, than when placed a little up the side, where centrifugal action takes better effect.

. The method of attaching the door to the cylinder and attaching the box to the door, also the construction of the box, will be similar to the contrivances now employed, and need not be described, the box being simply a long shallow device with a wire-gauze cover, which serves as a section of the cylinder when the box is in place, over which the feathers may be brushed, as in the restpart of the cylinder, and allowing the dirt to fall through into the box.

The steam-generator o, connecting-pipes p, distributing-pipes q, and the jacket a may all be constructed and arranged in the ordinary approved way.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with pipes g,leadingto the escape-pipe,of the perforated guards 'i,ar-

3. The combination of the drip-cups j with the dischargerpipes and cylinder of a featherr5 renovator, substantially as described.

4. The discharge-pipes g of a feather-renovator, arranged with a trap, r, substantially as described.

GEO RGE F. TALLMAN.

XVitnesses:

O. J. KNAPP, H. W. KNAPP. 

